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Creating a dashed “laissez vibrer”

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Here is how to make a “laissez vibrer” tie dashed. Especially useful in conjunction with Longer laissez vibrer ties.

\version "2.24"

laissezVibrerDashed = \override LaissezVibrerTie.dash-definition = #'((0 1 0.3 0.75))
laissezVibrerSolid = \revert LaissezVibrerTie.dash-definition

{
  \laissezVibrerDashed
  e'8 \laissezVibrer r8 r4 r2
  \laissezVibrerSolid
  e'8\laissezVibrer r8 r4
}